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Popular Game ‘Prison Architect’ Comes to Mac App Store
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Popular Game ‘Prison Architect’ Comes to Mac App Store

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Popular Steam game Prison Architect, which was originally released in October as part of Steam’s Early Access program, is making its way to the Mac App Store today through a partnership between developer Introversion Software and MacPlay. Prison Architect is a top-down simulation game where the goal is to build and run a successful prison. Players...
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Samsung gets DMV’s OK to test autonomous cars in California
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Samsung gets DMV’s OK to test autonomous cars in California

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Samsung first got a permit to test self-driving technologies in its home country earlier this year. The chaebol revealed then that it was planning to test the sensors and parts it’s developing aboard a Hyundai car. It unfortunately didn’t elaborate on what those components can do, but we might find out more details when the company starts testing...
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US settles first Muslim ban lawsuit with campaigners | USA News
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US settles first Muslim ban lawsuit with campaigners | USA News

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The US government will allow people barred from entering the country in the early days of President Donald Trump’s travel ban to reapply for visas following a legal settlement with campaigners.  Muslim Ban Protests Spread Outside Airports Under the terms of the agreement, announced on Thursday, the government must contact all individuals...
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Brazil suspends Amazon reserve plan, but threats remain | Brazil News
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Brazil suspends Amazon reserve plan, but threats remain | Brazil News

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Environmental activists have warned that a vast Amazon reserve is still under threat despite the suspension of a government decree that would open it up to commercial mining. The federal court in the capital, Brasilia, said on Wednesday that it had “partially granted an injunction to immediately suspend any administrative act” aimed at annulling the...
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FARC rebels reborn as ‘revolutionary force’ party | Colombia News
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FARC rebels reborn as ‘revolutionary force’ party | Colombia News

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Colombia’s former FARC rebel group has renamed itself the Common Alternative Revolutionary Force, as it transformed into a political party following its disarmament. “By a majority decision in our congress, the name of the new party has been fixed as the Common Alternative Revolutionary Force,” the group’s leader Rodrigo Londono wrote on Twitter on...
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Nintendo ordered to pay $10 million in Wii patent lawsuit
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Nintendo ordered to pay $10 million in Wii patent lawsuit

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The technology created by and patented by iLife was designed to detect when elderly individuals fell and monitor babies for sudden infant death syndrome. It sought $144 million in damages, or $4 for each of the 36 million Wii systems sold prior to the suit being filed, along with an injunction against Nintendo’s use of the technology in question. Nintendo...
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Instagram Stories Expand to the Web
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Instagram Stories Expand to the Web

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Instagram Stories, the feature that allows users to upload ephemeral photos and videos to a special daily timeline, is expanding to the web on both desktop and mobile devices, the company announced today. As with Instagram Stories in the mobile app, on the web, Stories will be featured at the top of the page. Clicking or tapping into a story will allow...
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Police who said ‘we only kill black people’ to be fired | USA News
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Police who said ‘we only kill black people’ to be fired | USA News

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A white police lieutenant in the US state of Georgia who was recorded on video during a traffic stop saying “we only kill black people” will be fired, a local police chief has said. Cobb County police Chief Mike Register told reporters on Thursday that he has started the process to terminate the employment of Lieutenant Greg Abbott. Videos...
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Major underwater Roman ruins discovered off Tunisia | News
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Major underwater Roman ruins discovered off Tunisia | News

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Roman ruins stretching out over 20 hectares have been discovered off the coast of northeastern Tunisia, confirming “with certainty” a theory that the city of Neapolis was partly submerged by a tsunami in the 4th century AD. “It’s a major discovery,” Mounir Fantar, the head of a Tunisian-Italian archaeological mission which made the find off the coast...
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Samsung secures self-driving car testing permit for California roads
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Samsung secures self-driving car testing permit for California roads

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Samsung got approval to test autonomous vehicles on state roads in California, according to the CA Department of Motor Vehicle’s website. The DMV maintains an ongoing list of companies and organizations it has granted autonomous testing permits to, and that list includes a growing number of automakers and tech companies, including Apple, Nvidia, GM,...
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Why are Rohingya refugees stranded in no-man’s land? | Rohingya
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Why are Rohingya refugees stranded in no-man’s land? | Rohingya

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It is a humanitarian crisis that is growing continuously. A week after former UN chief Kofi Annan released a report with recommendations to end years of persecution of the Rohingya people, the situation in Rakhine state in Myanmar appears to be getting worse. Women and children are among the tens of thousands of the ethnic Muslim-minority Rohingya...
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Iran in compliance with 2015 nuclear deal: IAEA report | Iran News
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Iran in compliance with 2015 nuclear deal: IAEA report | Iran News

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Iran remains in compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal made with the world powers, according to a UN atomic watchdog report. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Thursday that Iran’s stock of low-enriched uranium is used for peaceful purposes, and did not exceed the agreed limit of 300kg. The report was the third since the January...
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Sony’s RX0 is a tiny camera with big ideas
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Sony’s RX0 is a tiny camera with big ideas

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Sony just announced a new camera called the RX0, but breaking from the trend of lower number = fancier camera, this one is a tiny device that combines an action-cam form factor with some traditional imaging prowess. It’s an unusual combination, yet somehow tempting. The waterproof, shockproof RX0 has a 1-inch, 15-megapixel (cropped down from 21) sensor...
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Apple defends the open internet in a letter to the FCC
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Apple defends the open internet in a letter to the FCC

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On the heels of setting the date for its big fall iPhone event, Apple is coming out swinging for net neutrality. In a letter to the FCC, Apple’s U.S. Vice President for Public Policy Cynthia Hogan advocates for the open internet, cautioning against practices that would allow providers to favor some forms of traffic while throttling the speed...
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Kuwaiti emir to meet Trump as Gulf crisis continues | Kuwait News
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Kuwaiti emir to meet Trump as Gulf crisis continues | Kuwait News

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The emir of Kuwait will hold talks with US President Donald Trump in Washington, DC next week, according to the Kuwaiti state media, as a three-month-old diplomatic crisis splits the Gulf. KUNA news agency said on Thursday that Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah would depart for the United States on Friday and the Trump meeting was scheduled for September...
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Now you can rouse your kids to the smell of ‘Frozen’
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Now you can rouse your kids to the smell of ‘Frozen’

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Back in 2015, Sensorwake burst onto the scene as a Kickstarter project that replaced a noisy alarm clock with scents. Created by 18-year-old student Guillaume Roland, the device managed to raise nearly four times as much cash as intended. Now, the company, which is now renaming itself Bescent, is launching three follow-ups. The first two are the aforementioned...
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US orders closure of Russia consulate in San Francisco | USA News
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US orders closure of Russia consulate in San Francisco | USA News

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The United States has told Russia to close its consulate in San Francisco, in retaliation for Moscow’s demands that the size of the US mission in Russia be cut, according to the State Department. The announcement on Thursday also included a demand for a reduction in the Russian diplomatic presence in Washington and New York by Saturday with...
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Quebec mosque president’s car deliberately set on fire | Canada News
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Quebec mosque president’s car deliberately set on fire | Canada News

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Six months after a deadly shooting at a Quebec City mosque, its president’s car was deliberately set on fire, officials said on Wednesday. “Another hateful act” targeted the mosque and its president Mohamed Labidi in addition to “a long series” of other incidents, the Islamic Cultural Center of Quebec said in a statement. The fire was set on August...
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TCL is reportedly reviving Palm with new devices in 2018
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TCL is reportedly reviving Palm with new devices in 2018

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TCL actually bought the Palm name back in 2014, four years after HP acquired the brand and then shuttered its products a year later after they underperformed. That seemed a tragic end for Palm, which had led the late 90s and 2000s consumer device market with its PDAs and early smartphones, like the Pilot and Pre, respectively. But it looks like TCL...
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Brazil court suspends mining on Amazon’s Renca reserve | Brazil News
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Brazil court suspends mining on Amazon’s Renca reserve | Brazil News

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A Brazilian court has suspended a recent government decree that would open a huge Amazon reserve to commercial mining, after the initial decision sparked outrage from environmentalists and political opponents.  The federal court in the capital Brasilia said in a statement on Wednesday that it had “partially granted an injunction to immediately...
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What can Russia do to help end the Gulf crisis? | Kuwait
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What can Russia do to help end the Gulf crisis? | Kuwait

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Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has been in Qatar as part of efforts to find a common ground in the Gulf crisis. His visit to the Qatari capital of Doha on Wednesday came at the end of a three-nation tour of the region that also included Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates.  Lavrov is the highest-ranking Russian official to come to the...
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Here’s how much it will cost me to watch the NFL this season without cable
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Here’s how much it will cost me to watch the NFL this season without cable

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Watching the NFL can be expensive, and cable sucks. Some of us like sports but don’t want to pay for channels we’ll never watch. Fortunately there are ways to watch the NFL without cable for the 2017-2018 season. I’m a Baltimore Ravens fan, and I live in San Francisco. It will cost me $17.87 per game to watch every Ravens game from the 2017-2018 NFL...
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US-led air strikes block ISIL evacuation deal | Syria News
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US-led air strikes block ISIL evacuation deal | Syria News

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A US-led coalition battling ISIL says its fighter jets have blocked a convoy of the group’s fighters evacuated from Lebanon from reaching eastern Syria, and also struck a number of their comrades travelling from the other direction to meet them. The strikes on Wednesday were aimed at derailing a deal for fighters of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant...
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Autonomous Vehicle Startup Zoox Snags 17 Former Apple Automotive Engineers
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Autonomous Vehicle Startup Zoox Snags 17 Former Apple Automotive Engineers

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Seventeen automotive engineers who previously worked for Apple left the company to join self-driving startup Zoox following Apple’s shift away from developing a full autonomous car, reports Bloomberg. The group of engineers, who originally came to Apple from several Detroit carmakers and suppliers among other automotive companies, are said to specialize...
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Harvey hits Louisiana as Texas hunts for survivors | USA News
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Harvey hits Louisiana as Texas hunts for survivors | USA News

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Tropical storm Harvey has make a second landfall in the US state of Louisiana as large parts of Texas remain underwater following record rainfall that forced tens of thousands of people from their homes. Since coming ashore on Friday, the heavy rains have reportedly claimed the lives of at least 20 people and sent more than 32,000 to shelters, turning...
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The Instagif is a camera that “prints” animated GIFs
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The Instagif is a camera that “prints” animated GIFs

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Have you ever wanted to print an animated image? Well now you (almost) can. A maker named Abhishek Singh has created an instant camera that outputs a little box that contains a Raspberry Pi connected to a PiTFT screen. When you take a picture the camera transmits a short video to the screen which the plays it over and over again until you take another...
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A New Backdoor Targets Ministries and Embassies Worldwide
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A New Backdoor Targets Ministries and Embassies Worldwide

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Security researchers at ESET have discovered a new malware campaign targeting consulates, ministries and embassies worldwide to spy on governments and diplomats. Active since 2016, the malware campaign is leveraging a new backdoor, dubbed Gazer, and is believed to be carried out by Turla advanced persistent threat (APT) hacking group that’s been...
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South Asia floods: Affected areas and people impacted |
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South Asia floods: Affected areas and people impacted |

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Several countries in South Asia have been hit by floods caused by the annual monsoon season, which brings heavy rain from June to September. This year, the flooding has been worse. More than 1,200 people have been killed in India, Bangladesh and Nepal and hundreds of others have gone missing. According to the United Nations, the floods, rain and...
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Samsung’s fitness-focused Gear Sport smartwatch is a smaller alternative to the giant Gear S3
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Samsung’s fitness-focused Gear Sport smartwatch is a smaller alternative to the giant Gear S3

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Samsung’s wearables family gets a little bigger today with the addition of the Gear Sport. The new fitness-focused smartwatch arrives a few days after Fitbit finally debuted its long-awaited Ionic device, the latest in a growing acceptance among hardware makers that activity tracking continues to be the prime driver in the wearables space, smartwatches,...
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Top-end Teslas get price drop thanks to production improvements
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Top-end Teslas get price drop thanks to production improvements

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Tesla’s most expensive vehicle offerings got a discount overnight thanks to improvements in the production efficiency of the 100 kWh batteries that are used in their construction. The discounts range from $3,500 to $5,000, depending on the model, and include both the Model S and Model X top trims. As Electrek reports, the 100D models of both the X...
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UN condemns Egypt’s widening ‘assault on free speech’ | Egypt News
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UN condemns Egypt’s widening ‘assault on free speech’ | Egypt News

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UN human rights experts have raised “grave concern” over a widening “assault on freedom of expression” in Egypt, condemning the blocking of scores of news websites and the unlawful detention of journalists. Some 130 websites may have been banned by the Egyptian government on allegations of “supporting terrorism” and “spreading lies”, David Kaye...
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